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Los Angeles Lakers (17x NBA Champions)

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It looks like Ron Artest is the new Dennis Rodman. He said he had the word defense spelled out in his hair 6 different ways for the Orlando Magic game today. And if he was guarding Vince Carter it looks like it didn't work as he had 25 pts.
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Anyone see Matt Barnes and Kobe get into it today? Kobe half shuved Barnes after he made a layup, it looked like he changed his mind right before he flat out pushed Barnes. Later on a in-bounds pass Barnes acted like he was going to throw the ball in Kobe's face.
 
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CentralMOBuck said:
It looks like Ron Artest is the new Dennis Rodman. He said he had the word defense spelled out in his hair 6 different ways for the Orlando Magic game today. And if he was guarding Vince Carter it looks like it didn't work as he had 25 pts.
artest-hair.jpg


Anyone see Matt Barnes and Kobe get into it today? Kobe half shuved Barnes after he made a layup, it looked like he changed his mind right before he flat out pushed Barnes. Later on a in-bounds pass Barnes acted like he was going to throw the ball in Kobe's face.
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No comment on Artest's hair. Interesting, I guess? :lol:

That game was intense. Barnes was doing his best to get in Kobe's head. I think he was willing to take a 2nd double-technical to get Kobe out. Gasol had a hard foul on Howard. And then Barnes made a pretty bad play on Fisher at the end.
 
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Orlando doesn't scare me that much. I think Vince implodes with Kobe guarding him, and I don't see them being able to win without significant contributions from Vince. We have enough bodies to throw at Dwight Howard and more importantly attack him on defense to get him into foul trouble, and I love the Gasol-Lewis match-up for us. In addition, I think Boston is going to give them one hell of a run in the East finals.

The one thing that does scare me is that Kobe is going to let previous feuds with Matt Barnes interfere with his play in the series, and that he is going to be so intent on embarrassing him that he is not going to get his offense in the flow of the game and is going to force a lot of stuff. As long as Kobe is able to put that behind him and play good triangle basketball, I'm confident in a Lakers- Magic match-up.
 
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